Shelly's Blog

We have had a really busy Saturday, again. Jessica had to be at the Academic Rally by 11:45 this morning to take her English test. We brought Ashley G. home with us to work on a school project with Jessica for their Guidance Class. They finished it and then played around for awhile. They even made cupcakes with Alyssa's Cupcake Maker.......that's a really neat toy! Jessica went home with Ashley and I will have to pick her up tomorrow morning. I also found some old videos of Jessica on our old computer. Check them out at http://www.youtube.com/shellymilner I'll probably catch a lot of flack from the kids for th is one, but here is one of them many years ago in the bath tub.....I thought it was really cute.

Somewhere along the way, I caught a cold. I thought it was allergies earlier in the week but it has settled into a cold. I know this because I can't breathe and it feels like someone is sitting on my chest. I ended up staying home today to rest up and boy did I! I slept for most of the morning. Then I went in and picked up the kids and brought them home. I was a little productive while I was at home. I figured out why I couldn't get the wireless internet to hook up to Alyssa's computer........I guess it helps if you enter the right password on your network setup. I just wish it would have said something like, "Stupid, you put in the wrong password", instead of just saying nothing! I worked on that silly thing for hours last weekend trying to figure out why it wouldn't connect. When I went to compare my setup to Alyssa's I noticed that the amount of characters put in my line were much less than the ones I had entered into hers......sooooooo that's how I...

Here are a couple more videos from this past weekend. Ryan enjoying his cake! Jessica riding her dad's skateboard Alyssa riding her dad's skateboard

I promised I would have something to write about after the weekend was over and boy do I! We started out yesterday by going to Ryan's 1st birthday party. He had an Elmo cake that my sister made and another cake from Randalls that had Elmo and other Sesame Street characters on it. Ethan even got to help his liddle brudda blowout the candles on his cake......good job, Ethan! Ryan's Birthday Part 1 Later in the afternoon, we went out to "Little House" for Vicki's birthday party. Glenn had gone on ahead of the girls and I so he was already out there when we got there. We stopped at the grocery store on the way to pick up some carrots and apples for Penny, Pecos and Lily. All of the kids had a wonderful time feeding the horses their treats and then their hay. And speaking of hay, they had a great time playing in the hay! They also hooked the wagon up to the riding lawn mower and had their own little hayride around the property. Alyssa and Penny Jessica feeding Pecos h...

I know that I haven't blogged AT ALL this week, but really, REALLY nothing noteworthy has happened! I promise this weekend to have something interesting to write about. We have a 3 day weekend coming up and we have 2 birthday parties to attend, so if nothing else, I'll have some pictures to post. AND for some reason, the "m" on my keyboard is skipping and I keep having to go backwards and retype my "m's". Anyone have any idea why that's happening? I think I need one of those blower thingy's because aybe soething is under it? See how it drops the m's? Just for your information, I had to hit the m's twice to make them show up.

It's been a horrible, horrible, horrible Monday.......did I mention that it was horrible?? Well, maybe horrible is too strong of a word. Let's just say it was bad..... really bad. I woke up during the night and couldn't go back to sleep. Glenn's cell phone had a low battery and when it has a low battery, it emits a loud piercing sound every 5 minutes or so. I kept hearing that stupid phone downstairs beeping and no one (meaning Glenn :)) would go downstairs and turn it off. I also heard his truck alarm chirping sometime around 4:00 am and when I asked if it was his, I got - It does that when it's cold. Hopefully, tonight will be a better nights sleep. Needless to say, I had a really hard time staying awake today and that made the day seem really long. Jessica had to cheer at the basketball game after school so we had to hang around until it was over at 5:30. When we got home, I started my chicken parmesan but then Glenn got home just a little bit earlier t...

Remember the old adage - "Be Careful What You Wish For, Cause You Just Might Get It."? I think it has just happened to me! For years, I have had a really dull set of knives and have "wished" that I had a really really sharp set. I asked for a nice set of knives for Christmas and Guy made my wish come true. Well, actually, he bought me a really really sharp set for my Christmas present. The biggest knife is something that you might whack a coconut with to cleave it in half. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm pretty sure it would work. I have been in the kitchen most of the day starting out with making my homemade chicken noodle soup. I used my really big knife to cut the chicken breasts in to tiny pieces and when I was finished, I was wiping the blade clean and touched the blade on the top part of my pointing finger and put a slice in it.......I barely touched it and it sliced me! I put a bandaid on it and went to cut up an onion and again, I barely touched t...